Teacher accused of abusing students

[proud2BlibKansan]

Teacher accused of abusing students

A Kansas City School District music teacher has been accused of assaulting some of her students.

According to media reports, the incident at Trailwoods K-8 School, 6201 E. 17th St., occurred Tuesday. The teacher became angry as students were talking near the end of school and then threw several chairs across the classroom that hit some students.

The teacher also has been accused of grabbing the ears of two students and dragging them out of the room.

According to media reports, police issued the teacher a citation for child abuse. The teacher is on leave while an investigation into the incident continues.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/529261.html

[Birthmark]

1. When I was in school...

...we called that "Tuesday." It was tough back then. You have no idea how difficult it is to saddle up a mammoth. They're cantankerous to say the least.

[Mountainman]

2. When I grew up in Catholic school we got books and other things thrown at us.

Pulling ears and hitting with rulers and sticks was common place. Nuns!

[Echo In Light]

4. While I did time in Catholic school {70s, early 80s} most of the haters had apparently been removed

Thankfully. However, we moved a lot, and I unfortunately saw a handful of em until splitting for public school.

Being smaller, they tend {teachers included} toward groupthink and cliques ... of which I was always on the outside looking in. By choice ;)

However, if one had hit me, I would've def hit back.

[yellerpup]

8. For Catholic school veterans check out Sister Mary Dracula.

A little boy in Catholic school becomes convinced that his teacher is a vampire and sets out to find proof. This is a very sweet story about a 3rd grader with a big imagination. On line as Chapter 1 of a graphic novel and in a flash animation that premiered at the San Diego Comic Convention in 2004. http://www.sistermarydracula.com

[Echo In Light]

9. Cool. Thanks

[yellerpup]

13. Enjoy!

:hi:

[MotorCityMan]

12. I only went to Catholic school for first grade

but I have heard more than a few horror stories from my mom and others.

My late partner, who was a devastatingly handsome man, used to get chased around the room by a priest. Thank God he didn't get caught!

[Donnachaidh]

3. former catholic school teacher?

This was SMALL shit in the catholic schools we went to. Grabbed somebody by the ear -- pffttt! Try grabbing them by the collar, backhanding them twice across the face, and throwning them down the hall on their back. Oh yeah -- it was a nun doing this to a 5th grade girl.

NO teacher should be allowed to lay hands on ANY student -- EVER. And if I was a parent of the kid who was hit with a chair, I'd be filing assault charges ASAP.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I went to Catholic school and never saw any kids being abused

I have nothing but wonderful memories of the nuns and our other teachers. (well except one certain 4th grade teacher :) But she never was physically abusive.

It always pains me to hear these stories about mean Catholic school teachers. I guess I am lucky.

[Echo In Light]

6. Agreed...although I firmly believe the social environment of those I attended was negative

For a host of reasons. Were there + elements too? Naturally. Overall though, very centered on controlling and shaping the young i.e. "winning hearts and minds."

[Donnachaidh]

7. I felt as if I was in a war zone

When my mother enrolled me she quite literally told them if a hair on my head was touched she'd SUE the skirts off the school. She had been thru 12 years of abuse at a catholic school herself, and was really not going to stand seeing her daughter get treated the same way. HOWEVER, she wanted me to have the education available -- it was so much better than the public school system.

The girl that got slung had been standing behind me on the line for the water fountain. She was babbling at me and the girl behind her. I was so frightened by the way she was treated I don't think I talked for the rest of the day. And her parents did NOTHING about it. :wow:

[Echo In Light]

10. It's all of those personal examples where a parent fails a child...

That serves to perpetuate much of the prevailing social systems to intentionally or otherwise establish irrational attitudes of submission to authority.

My daughter, on the other hand, will never see the inside of a Catholic school.

[yellerpup]

11. My little sister was under 3 ft. tall in the second grade.

Her teacher took a belt to her because she didn't come down the slide fast enough. When my mother saw the stripes, stormed the school, took the belt away from the teacher and the Principal pinned to keep her from giving the teacher a taste of her own medicine. It's a good thing mom didn't start packing a handgun until after we were all out of school. There is no excuse for child abuse.